<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398]]></link><description><![CDATA['A took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;  And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8178]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the Christian, love is the works of love. To say that love is a feeling or anything of the kind is really an un-Christian conception of love. That is the aesthetic definition and therefore fits the erotic and everything of that nature. But to the Christian, love is the works of love. Christ's love was not an inner feeling, a full heart and what-not: it was the work of love which was his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, light a cathedral, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming from the cotton plantation, the southern regions, I was brought up with real nice kids, mannered kids, who would go to church on Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am persuaded that some have scarce any better or more forcible argument to satisfy their own minds that they are in the right in religion than the inclination they find in themselves to hate and persecute them whom they suppose to be in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39354]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was my first straight dramatic role, and the most adult, intelligent one I have ever played.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36390]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't hurt me. He gave me a chin check. I felt one of his hardest punches and it was nothing. In fact, it got me mad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53103]]></link><description><![CDATA[But it is not reason that governs love. [Fr., Mais la raison n'est pas ce qui regle l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10453]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo  and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo  and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39341]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well against Chelsea, but it's about points now. We need to beat West Brom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43767]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the "functional whole" is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts; and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47510]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept urgency. That was a big factor. We kept playing hard on defense and stuck with the game plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept urgency. That was a big factor. We kept playing hard on defense and stuck with the game plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spheres of influence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spheres of influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52249]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['He means well' is useless unless he does well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4017]]></link><description><![CDATA['He means well' is useless unless he does well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sad are only those who understand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sad are only those who understand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buddy Guy finally got a break and made it. And Buddy Guy deserves it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14114]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you belong to a minority, you have to be better in order to have the right to be equal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's moved around, he's in a lot of different positions. They're really working it to him, getting him in some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30523]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's moved around, he's in a lot of different positions. They're really working it to him, getting him in some mismatch situations, throwing some crossing routes underneath, trying to isolate him on linebackers and situations like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The manager with the in basket problem does not yet understand that he must discipline himself to take care of activities that fail to excite him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16425]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41172]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't make a decision right now. I'm going to wait until next Monday. I want to know how I feel tomorrow. I don't feel any pain or anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42253]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is kind of capping a string of fairly strong numbers, and I'm even going to have to boost my estimate of fourth quarter GDP up closer to 3 percent. We know the Fed is sitting on the edge of its seat. It's going to make everybody a bit nervous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62356]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our God and soldiers we alike adore ev'n at the brink of danger; not before: After deliverance, both alike requited, Our God's forgotten, and our soldiers slighted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt is the brother of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt is the brother of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56123</guid></item></channel></rss>